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My quest to create new Rails 3 Double Sided Polymorphic Gem
# Ok, I'm creating a paired down version of Has_Many_Polymorphs in Rails 3 and making use of Arel. A great way to learn!
# Super simple setup:
class Content < ActiveRecord::Base
polly :parents => :posts, :children => [:images, :paragraphs, :quotes]
end
class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
end
class Image < ActiveRecord::Base
end
class Paragraph < ActiveRecord::Base
end
class Quote < ActiveRecord::Base
end
# Post has many :images, :paragraphs, and :quotes and many polymorphic children.
p = Post.first # => #<Post>
p.children # => Currently returns an array of records returned from a special Arel table to select the polymorphic data
p.children.order('contents.order ASC') # => I would like this to append order() to the Arel table, then return the results
p.children.where('contents.approved = ?', true).order('contents.order ASC') # => I would like this to append both where() and order() to the Arel table, then return the results
# My question is this:
# How can I extend the sweetness of ActiveRecord to allow chaining of finder methods to an existing Arel table, then automatically execute the Arel SQL rather than returning an Arel table?
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